Wait, wait, wait. You cant tell me that you are sneaking out of the house without providing some vital details.

-Does your house have an alarm?
-Are your doors loud? (do they squeak, especially the front/back/side doors)
-Does your garage have a bounce back feature? (where if something is in the way, it will stop halfway down and go back up)
-How late do you want to stay out until?
-Any pets?

Take a smallish object about 2 feet high, and place it under the garage door. Go out and do something outside as your parents are going to bed, let them know about it. When you come back through the garage place the object in the way of the garage door and close the garage door until it touches the object...so it looks like the object stopped the garage door. When you go out, just crawl under the 2 ft. space created.

If you are able to do this without getting caught, lubricate the hinges on the door leading to the garage. Make sure to wipe the excess lubricator off the hinges though!

Now, wait until your parents are sound asleep and sneak out. You best be quiet. And make sure your jackass friends who are driving wait down the street NOT OUTSIDE THE HOUSE.

Way to ruin my plans, Soku . Your best bet then is to lubricate the hinges of the door going outside, use a side or back door if you can. If your mom is bad sleeper get back at a legit hour--like 4 or 5...she's probably still in deep sleep then. Bring a backpack with your bed clothes...change into them before you walk into your house. Ditch the bag in a safe place outside before you walk in the door. If you wake your parents up (in other words, they are still sleeping until you walk in) when you come back in just say you thought you heard some screaming outside and wanted to check it out. If they are waiting for you at the kitchen, fess up, youll get a lighter punishment! This had a good success rate though...for me at least. Ahhh...how I wish I still lived at home........nevermind.

I have it pretty easy I guess, I wait about a half hour to an hour after my parents fall asleep then I go out the front door and return through the front door. Not a weekend goes by where I don't do that.

Your mom awakes to find you gone and you leave a door open. She is scared to death and crying and calls the police. The police issue a APB on a missing person you now have the police calling people you know in the area at 2 in the morning. Your friends parents are scared that your missing and now you have police officers diverting their resources to go and look for your punk ass while you go and hot box your friends POS car with some half naked chick in the back. Finally, you return home, busted when you enter of course. Your mother is red eyed from crying and your father is furrious with you. You now have ruined your parents day, embaressed your self, diverted police resources (which could cause you to be responsible for a officer not being able to respond to a serious call) and awakened all of your local friends parents and relatives, as wells as get yourself in a shit load of trouble.

Sounds like fun, eh? Don't be a naive fool and think things will go perfectly. It never does, and eventually you'll get caught. And spare the police from your stupidity. Shame on the rest of the perpatrators here.

I'm going to assume you have a few days to plan your endeavor, as I did my first time (years ago...).

Generally speaking, it will work better if they are asleep. If you absolutely have to get out before they turn in, you are taking a significantly larger risk.
1. Plan a route out (window, door, etc.), with a backup in mind. Plan TWO routes in, with another backup in mind (you don't want the backup to be pounding on the front door to wake someone up to let you in).
2. Do prep. work well in advance, to avoid suspicion. You really want the last hour or two in the house to be as normal as possible.
3. Plan to use the least risky route possible, even if it is longer, slower, etc. Believe me, that trellis on the side of the house isn't as easy or safe in the middle of the night, especially if it is raining. Consider outside chances of getting caught- nosy neighbors, dogs, etc.
4. Leave some 'emergency' supplies outside. A door key, a flashlight, a screwdriver, ladder, etc. Anything you think you might need to get back inside but don't want to carry with you where ever you are going.
5. Even after you think the 'rents are completely asleep, wait another 3-5 minutes, just to be safe.
6. Take your time on the way out, again, don't rush it, don't get too excited... this is when you'll do something dumb.
7. Have fun
8. Again, take your time on the way back in.

Good luck!

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Airplay, couldn't agree more. I can't stand the 16-18 year old jackasses who drive 100 mph in a residential neighborhood at 2 am, screaming and playing loud music. I swear if I see em' again , I'm gonna toss a big rock.

I think that you've forgot that your parents have been teenagers too, even if you didn't knew them by then.
They know much more about your way of thinking than you can imagine, of the simple reason that they have been there, done that!

I don't know about your parents, but my kids could never, ever, sneak out without me noticing, I have been through too much for that...

Airplay wrote:

Get back to bed and stay there kid. Your parents keep you in the house sleeping in the middle of the night for a reason.

It all depends on what you're going to do, depends on your past, if you're a good kid or not. Sneaking out to do illegal activities that have serious repurcussions is not a smart thing for kids to do or parents to accept.

Just my opinion.

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Long ago, I helped one of my friends sneak out several times over one summer. Long story short, they bolted the screens to his windows and put tape on his bedroom door. He lost their trust totaly. This is not the best thing to do.